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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 21</span><span class="fp-text">LE VIEUX LION, LE SANGLIER, LE TAUREAU ET L'ÂNE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XXI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">LEO SENEX, APER, TAURUS ET ASINUS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quiconque a perdu son ancienne puissance</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">devient dans le malheur, le jouet même du lâche.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ignavis est etiam jocus in casu gravi.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Abattu par les années, abandonné de ses forces,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le lion, gisant à terre, allait rendre le dernier soupir.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le Sanglier fond brusquement sur lui, et d'un coup de ses terribles défenses,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">venge une vieille injure&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">bientôt après, de ses cornes impitoyables, le Taureau perça</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le corps de son ennemi. L'âne, voyant</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'impunité de ces outrages, lui brise la tête d'une ruade.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le lion lui dit en expirant&nbsp;: «&nbsp;J'ai supporté avec indignation</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">les insultes des braves ; mais souffrir tes atteintes, opprobre de la nature,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il me semble que c'est mourir deux fois.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Defectus annis et desertus viribus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">leo cum jaceret spiritum extremum trahens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">aper fulmineis ad eum venit dentibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et vindicavit ictu veterem injuriam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Infestis taurus mox confodit cornibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hostile corpus. Asinus, ut vidit ferum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">impune <span class="fp-correction" title="ledi  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">laedi</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="laedi  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">ledi</span></span>, calcibus frontem extorxit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">At ille expirans&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Fortes indigne tuli</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">mihi insultare&nbsp;: te, naturae dedecus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lion_devenu_vieux">Le Lion devenu vieux</a></div>
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